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"And when it was Hudson’s turn?"

He bea I sent him a pair of women’s bikini panties Pink Satin" He narrowed his eyes in on her as she burst out laughing "You think this is funny?" he asked

"I do"

"Hure out what that hht into the water, clothes and all

Chapter 22

Hauling Lily’s laughing ass into the water with hireat, and since the past four days had been one shit show after another, Aidan needed this Needed a good time

His plan had been to hit the sack and sleep away as much of the adrenaline and exhaustion as he could But then he’d found a present waiting for him, a present in the form of this sweet, sexy, perfect-for-hie

"You dunkedthe water from her face

"Yeah" He e he’d felt an erets He’d wanted her, but she hadn’t wanted him back He couldn’t have her and that was that

He’d moved on

He’d told himself so He’d moved on and had done okay for hi mostly unscathed by love and unattached by choice

Then Lily had driven back into town and blasted right through his brick walls in a way no one else had ever ed

That she’d done it so effortlessly terrified him

He liked to be in control Needed to be in control It’s how he and Gray had ether, they’d stepped up to head of household, gathering in all the innocent pawns--their mom, Hudson and Jacob and their mom, and also Kenna--and they’d created a fa one of the tho’d held it together all these years also meant that the buck stopped with hi his own needs and feelings aside, and that was fine but also … lonely

Gray had always had Penny

But Aidan didn’t have that kind of a connection, and yeah, that’d been by choice, but he’d been wrong about that He knew it now He was sick of being alone, and if he was being honest, he’d felt that way for a while now The part that was neas that he wanted to not be alone with … Lily

The question was, had he convinced her yet that shea chance, he slid his ar her into him